Forward

Forward is the protocol used by Fluentd to route messages between peers. The forward output plugin allows to provide interoperability between Fluent Bit and Fluentd. There are not configuration steps required besides to specify where Fluentd is located, it can be in the local host or a in a remote machine.

That configuration file specifies that will listen for TCP connections on the port 24224 through the forward input type. Then for every message with a fluent_bitTAG, will print the message to the standard output.

In one terminal launch Fluentd specifying the new configuration file created (in_fluent-bit.conf):